Shockwave B-29

[SkyHawk024]

Is it just me or does anyone else here remember the Shockwave B-29 Superfortress? If so does anyone agree with me that it would make a good candidate for A2A to bring back one of there earlier products and improve upon it?

[JoeS475]

I'm in full agreement! Plus, with all the work done on the B377 - there must be some solid crossover there. My fingers are crossed, but whatever is next wil be amazing!

Joe

[SkyHawk024]

Not to even mention but the Shockwave B-29 is the best B-29 out to date!

[Roadburner426]

Well Scott and them were working closely with a group of people involved in restoring a C-97 (military cargo variant of the Stratocruiser)... I think it would not be so much of a stretch to say at some point we will see a C-97 add on, and that lays a good basis for the B-29 as well. Time will tell. Almost seems as if they are done with the piston engined birds, and on to the turbo jets. Although I do remember something mentioned about a BF or ME-109... However you never know what they have up their sleeve.

As a side note I do have the old B-29 in a pack I got from Gamestop. It has a ton of stuff from when they were Shockwave as you mention. Some Heinkel birds, the B-29, and as a bonus the original P-51 Mustang was ported from 2004 for that pack. Was one of the best purchases for FSX I ever made then. All these years later though they are obviously showing their age.... Although one question for Scott is why was there a Go-229 on the box cover, and no Go-229 contained in it. Not really a complaint, but all these years later was just a curiosity. It was a bird I was really hoping was in there, but I would up getting one from Sky Unlimited eventually. To think here we are with Accu-sim all these years later. Who would of thought?

[SkyHawk024]

I know right the only place you can purchase the pack for the b-29 anymore is on ebay and i think there even running low but alas i hope scott will see this one day and leave a spirit lifting comment but until then ill make do with the rest of my buds that have it!

[Skycat]

why was there a Go-229 on the box cover, and no Go-229 contained in it. Not really a complaint, but all these years later was just a curiosity.

The original product that included the B-29 was for FS9 only and was titled WWII Heavy Bombers & Jets. As I recall it was Shockwave Productions-now-A2A's first brick and mortar store product for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The box looked like this:


Heavy Bombers & Jets was released at about the same time as, or shortly after, Shockwave Productions-now-A2A's breakout product, the FirePower expansion for Combat Flight Simulator 3. FirePower had twice as many flyable aircraft as HB&J, with the additional aircraft in FirePower mostly late war and next-gen Luftwaffe fighters. The FirePower box looked like this:


The original Heavy Bombers & Jets product became very difficult to find (I think it went out of print), and within only a couple years after its release it was going for $70-80 on Amazon.com! But then, about the same time that FSX and WWII Fighters were released, the older HB&J and FirePower products were re-released on one DVD titled Aircraft Power Pack. As I described, the DVD was actually two separate expansions, one for FS9/FSX and the other for CFS3. APP also included the Wings of Power II P-51D. The Gotha on the cover represented the CFS3 expansion. This is the DVD cover:

[trucker17]

I will second that....We can use a good FSX version.......

On another note......
I think its a disgrace the way the U.S. bowed to the Japanesse about displaying the Enola Gay.
At least now we can see her as she was meant to be seen....Not hidden and dismanteled in a hanger, the way she was for so many years....

[SkyHawk024]

this b-29 pictured is the shockwave b-29 on my fsx it comes in a package i just wish they would bring it back to improve on it!

[JJB17463rdBombGroup]

The Heavy Bombers and Jets add on came out several months after the first Firepower add on.
I remember why because I showed my father the Firepower add on running on my PC and my dad passed away about two months or so before the WOP Heavy Bombers and Jets add on (box retail) came out in 2004.
It was quite a big painful shock losing him at the time.

[Fragmentum]

The Heavy Bombers and Jets add on came out several months after the first Firepower add on.
I remember why because I showed my father the Firepower add on running on my PC and my dad passed away about two months or so before the WOP Heavy Bombers and Jets add on (box retail) came out in 2004.
It was quite a big painful shock losing him at the time.

You must be a VERY proud son! Thanks so much for sharing his history with us.

[SkyHawk024]

yeah

[JJB17463rdBombGroup]

The Heavy Bombers and Jets add on came out several months after the first Firepower add on.
I remember why because I showed my father the Firepower add on running on my PC and my dad passed away about two months or so before the WOP Heavy Bombers and Jets add on (box retail) came out in 2004.
It was quite a big painful shock losing him at the time.

You must be a VERY proud son! Thanks so much for sharing his history with us.

Thank you that was a nice thing to say.Anyway I looked back at previous posts and it looks like I obtained the WOP Heavy Bombers and Jets retail box when it was first released sometime in late Sept 2004.
It might have been available on the East Coast of the U.S. perhaps earlier though.Firepower I think came out in May of 2004.Anyway I am on the first page of the members list so I signed up very early here on the forum.My dad passed away in the month of July of 2004.Hard to believe I've been here 8 years.

[Fragmentum]

The Heavy Bombers and Jets add on came out several months after the first Firepower add on.
I remember why because I showed my father the Firepower add on running on my PC and my dad passed away about two months or so before the WOP Heavy Bombers and Jets add on (box retail) came out in 2004.
It was quite a big painful shock losing him at the time.

You must be a VERY proud son! Thanks so much for sharing his history with us.

Thank you that was a nice thing to say.Anyway I looked back at previous posts and it looks like I obtained the WOP Heavy Bombers and Jets retail box when it was first released sometime in late Sept 2004.
It might have been available on the East Coast of the U.S. perhaps earlier though.Firepower I think came out in May of 2004.Anyway I am on the first page of the members list so I signed up very early here on the forum.My dad passed away in the month of July of 2004.Hard to believe I've been here 8 years.

My how time fly's (no pun intended, really....). Yes, indeed, we both have been here awhile when you consider the forum was born Feb 11, 2004. I joined Jan 2005. I wish I was into the heavy prop birds back then but to have an Accu-sim B-29 would be VERY special indeed!!!

[bedrat2]

I'm in total agreement, the B-29 bomber is one of my all time favorites next to the B-17 and to be honest all the hard work has been done by the Boeing 377 accu-sim you could either go with the B-50 variant which is almost identical to the 377 or you could change the engines and have a B-29. I remember buying the Aircraft Powerpack for FSX and being able to use some of the planes in CF3, I would love for A2A to bring it back.

[SkyHawk024]

thats why i started this little forum post!